Wasted Time

I spent sixty-five hours testing code on a project that is due today. The engineering requirements were written by a business analyst who can’t write a decent sentence to save her life. Many of my sentence of day posts come from her emails. Two days ago it was discovered that seventy percent of engineering requirements were wrong and had to be rewritten, recoded and retested. I started the project over on Thursday. This morning I find out that I have to start over again as the requirements I tested yesterday were still not correct. I’m back to square one today. The project will be at least a week late which will have ripple effect on the rest of the production cycle. It’s a good thing I get paid by the hour and not by the job.

It’s Friday and it’s time for art. Fritz and I are hitting the galleries tonight. I look forward to getting away from the laptop and out in the real world.